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Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

ISOAMYL BUTYRATE
COE No.: 282
FEMA No.: 2060
JECFA No.: 45
Chemical names: 3-METHYLBUTYL BUTANOATE
Synonyms: ISOAMYL BUTANOATE
Functional class: FLAVOURING AGENT
Latest evaluation: 1996
ADI: 0-3 mg/kg bw (1979)
Comments: No safety concern at current levels of intake when used as a flavouring agent. The 1979 group ADI of 0-3 mg/kg bw for isoamyl acetate and isoamyl butyrate, expressed as isoamyl alcohol, was maintained at the forty-sixth meeting (1996).
Report: TRS 868-JECFA 46/23
Specifications: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 5/FNP 52 Add.5/206 (1997)
Tox monograph: See TRS 868-JECFA 46/68
Previous status: 1996, COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 4/FNP 52 Add.4/181. R
1979, TRS 648-JECFA 23/29, FNP 12-JECFA 23/54 (COMPENDIUM/803). NOT PREPARED, 0-3 (GROUP ADI WITH ISOAMYL ACETATE, EXPRESSED AS ISOAMYL ALCOHOL). 0-3.
1967, NMRS 44/TRS 383-JECFA 11/12, FAS 69.31/NMRS 44B-JECFA 11/7, FAS 68.33/NMRS 44A-JECFA 11/50. 0-5 (CONDITIONAL). CO. N
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Isoamyl butyrate (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 44a)